The Tandy Zoomer went under the other name of the Tandy Z-PDA, so that might be part of the issue with timing it (and the whole OS function was also used by Casio). Here are some other sites that mention it from 1992:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-golden-age-of-pdas
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-tandy-zoomer-the-x86-pda-before
https://lowendmac.com/2016/a-history-of-palm-part-1-before-the-palmpilot/

But it does seem that it's OS is originally by Geoworks, not Palm (my mistake). (GEOS had been first released in 1986 according to the Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) ). Now, the first version of it are similar to classic macOS, but then as you've mentioned and others know, that was based on Xerox Parc, so what have you.

As for the Newton being publicly demonstrated in 1992, there wasn't a functioning prototype so this becomes iffy to say how much it could inspire anyone. At least according to this link: https://thisdayintechhistory.com/05/29/apple-newton-announced/ As the concept is, an idea is cheap, being able to make it is hard.

(On a side note, from what I also was reading on the Wikipedia about Geoworks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Softworks is that it seems that Apple was going to also license it for their Powerbooks (1991 release) and they were going to use GEOS. "GeoWorks got into extensive discussions with Apple about developing a low-cost notebook laptop which would run GEOS but with a modified Macintosh UI. The idea got to the point that it was presented to then Apple CEO John Sculley. The idea was scrapped in favour of producing Macintosh PowerBooks with MacOS." But this is all I could find and how valid Wikipedia always is can be debated. But it does indicate that it's possible Apple had already started taking notes from the OS that was used so could be some copying of GEOS for the Newton.)

Apple didn't take set top boxes seriously in the beginning. The first models needed iTunes to stream things to it in 2007, and it wasn't until an update a year later that it stopped needing that requirement. Even ignoring that, there were things like the Philips Streamium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamium) That were able to do the same thing since 2003.

As for the tablet PC part, Palm's UI was used in their first PDA device, the Tandy Zoomer in 1992. Here is a training video of that time showing all it can do.

https://youtu.be/kGjysw9VhIM?si=wRWWiyLnPm6rsa6T

Now tell me the Newton UI wasn't majorly influenced by Palm's UI.

Off the shelf set top boxes are much older than Apple TVs.

And the Newton was just Apple's "Me too" device, a copy of many other tablets of that time. It didn't inspire the Palm Pilot, the Palm Pilot was was created by Jeff Hawkins who in 1989 helped develop the Gridpad by Grid Systems. Even Samsung had already developed a tablet computer in 1992, a year before Apple's Newton.

Fuck off you illiterate moron

Maybe not to the NSA, but they do have this exact sharing agreement with China. It's one of those reasons why you can get an iPhone in China but not an Android phone with Google. For all Apple's claims of protecting your privacy, in the end with China, they showed they don't care about your privacy but Google does. Kinda funny that Google is the ones who are more privacy protecting than Apple is.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

Of course other governments are going to want the same deal China has. So I'm not surprised here. Why should China get the royal treatment over countries?

I have a plain Debian image I can pop in about 90% of the machines we're removing Win10 from without any hassle. When the hell is the last time you installed Linux?

It's Powershell, it probably takes up 2gb in libraries.

Well, that, and they're likely to start harassing their coworkers, because they have be inculcated with the belief that every utterance that comes from their is not merely profound, but their absolute right to blurt out.

As with most IT boondoggles, there's plenty of blame to spread around from both the management and consultant side of the transaction. Even where seemingly water tight contracts are in place with KPIs, milestones and penalties, sooner or later the sunk cost fallacy will get triggered. The consultants know this, which is why quotes are largely fictitious.

I don't know what the solution is. Having been on both sides of that coin, I've seen how getting customers to come up with a well-defined spec and resisting inevitable feature creep is insanely hard. From the customer side I've seen how eagerly in a competitive procurement process bidders will say whatever the RFQ/RFP requires, and how hard it is to actually verify claims without making the procurement process even longer.

The real problem here is that governments, and indeed many private organizations, have hollowed their IT departments, basically contracting out pretty much everything to outside consultants and service providers. This means there are few people, or in some cases no one, in house that can actually meaningfully assess bids and quotes. You basically have consultants' sales teams both making the pitch and assessing how great it it is, so that they can say almost anything and the elected officials or civil servants, with no direct knowledge of how complex such projects can be, basically swindled by the false economy of the lowest bid.

Is there anything worth pirating? I've rediscovered an old hobby... reading. I'm down to just Prime now because it has the most older British detective shows and period dramas (a bit of a favorite with my partner right now). If it was left to me, I'd simply cancel it all. My last Disney+ subscription went unused for a couple of months, save for my daughter and I watching watching Alien Romulus (what a sad waste that was).

So far as I'm concerned they can raise it to a million dollars a month.

You would need to add at least a couple of 0s for it to even begin to seem reasonable.

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

And it may prove to be the most prophetic of all ST:TOS episodes. Unfortunately, the C-suite is currently jacking off to it. "No, don't let that pointy-eared freak control the guard's mind! And pass my cocaine!"

It isn't a dev kit, it never was and never will be. It's a flop and you only want to call it a dev kit because it's an Apple product and you can't handle the truth. If it had somehow sold amazingly, you wouldn't have called it a dev kit.

You want a dev kit, then get the Apple Vision Pro Dev Kit from Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/developer-kit/

The Apple Vision Pro that's for sale is a flop, a big, overpriced, expensive flop from Apple.